{"id":577,"date":"2008-10-02T10:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T10:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expandsmtest.com\/franchiseking\/new-web-poll-ar\/"},"modified":"2017-02-26T15:27:08","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T15:27:08","slug":"new-web-poll-ar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/new-web-poll-ar","title":{"rendered":"New Web Poll; Are You Still Going To Invest In A Franchise Of Your Own?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the economy a little unstable, are you<em> still <\/em>going to launch your brand new franchise? That is The Franchise King&#8217;s Blog Poll Question for the month of October. Please vote in the Red and Green box on the right. Of course you could vote, <strong>and comment <\/strong>on your situation&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Lat month&#8217;s Poll Question concerned charitable contributions. As a small business owner would you  be contributing a portion of your profits to charity? <strong>The results:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>78.3%<\/strong> Yes<br \/><strong>13.0%<\/strong>  No<br \/><strong>8.7%  <\/strong>Maybe<\/p>\n<p>Here is something interesting. At <em>the beginning of September<\/em>, when the Poll question was posed, almost <strong>90%<\/strong> said they would donate a portion of their profits to a charity of some type. <em>As the economic news worsened, that % dropped. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>If You Subscribe To This Blog, You&#8217;ll Get The Results!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the economy a little unstable, are you still going to launch your brand new franchise? That is The Franchise King&rsquo;s Blog Poll Question for the month of October. Please vote in the Red and Green box on the right. 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